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c rheatrum c Botanicum. 
T R I B E, 
Chap. XCIIII. 
HcderA. IviCo 
I Hc Ancient Greeke and Latinc writers ®f hcrbes, as DufcoriJes, Tbcophmjhu and Pliny have fct. 
T Iffg't ^ ow . nc many varictiesof Ivie, (bcfides the Htdcra Ifinof* which is SrmUx After* defcribed before 
—'M ,ntllls 'Y° r ke) which were obferved in their times, partly in the leaves and flowers, but chiefely in ■ 
§U the berries, yet make but three principall kinds, <tlba, nigra and htli.v, and yet more exaftly two 
forts, H>1* cjHeinaltum Attallitnr, m& alia cpte hnmi refit, which divifionas molt proper, they fub- 
divrded each of them againe into their (pecies or forts, whereof we know but few, for that onely which climeth 1 
upon trees, walls,&c.and beareth black berries,and the other barren kind that creepeth upon the ground,yct with I 
the c af ping branches will take hold of whatfoever is next unto it, are beft knowne to us; the others wich white : 
or yellow her rres are I'eldome fcenc in thefe Chriftian parts, yet 1 will fhew you in this Chapter thofe diverfities s 
that Ibeofhretftw fpeaketh of which they had in former times, joyning thereto fome later found out kinds. 
1. Haleru arboreafivefcandent & firymbofa nigra. The ordinary Climing Ivie. 
The climing Ivie groweth up with a thicke wooddy trunke or body, fometimes as bigge as ones arme, (hood ■ 
ting forth on all (ides many wooddy branches, and groweth fometimes alone by it felfe into a pretty bufli or t 
tree,ar/.afc/faith he faw inch in thiscountrey, but ufually climeth up by trees, and as the branches rile lendeth 1 
forth divers (mail rootesinto the body, or .branches of the tree whereby it climeth up, or into the chinkes or 
joynts of (lone walls, whereon it runnethfoftrongly, faflnine them therein, that it draweth the nourifhmenc : 
out of the tree and thereby killcth it by confirming the life and moiflure thereof, and by choaking it with the 
abundance of lhadow and moyflure of his branches,and evergrcenc leaves (which may feemetobc an ornament 
thereto when it is leafclefle, but is in the end the bane and utter ruin of it) which branches alio having thus fafl- 
ned their rootes into the tree or wall will live thereby upwards, if any (hall cut away the trunke or body below, 
as well as if it were not taken away at all,but by fallning the roots into the wall, and there growing great, they 
often (ocracke it that it will in time alforuine it utterly: while the tree is young the leaves of mod will be corne¬ 
red, but when it groweth elder, it hath no corners on the fides,and onely round orfomewhat longe,and pointed 
at the end, the young leaves thatfpring forth from the branches, keeping oftentimes the fame order, and are of 
a darke (liming greetc colour above, andfomewhat ofa yellowilli greene underneath; flriptd with white and 
fometimes with red fpots, abiding frefli and greene Winter and Summer : from the joynts of the (hikes and 
toppes of the branches,grow forth upon flrort flalkes fmall moflie yellow flowers, (landing in an umbell or clofe 
round tufc ; after which come fmall round berries, greene untill they grow ripe, and then turning blacke, with 
a Imall pornt at the end of every one, in which is contained ufually foure feedes three fquate in a manner, but 
. Hcdera arbprei wflras. 
Our ordinary Ivie. 
3. Hcdem Ttionyfiai five Chryfotarpot , 
Yellow berried Ivie. 
